Word: graying
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...democracy in the region," says Malek Mrowa, a businessman and friend of Kassir's. The next morning, the 45-year-old Kassir, a university lecturer and columnist for Lebanon's An-Nahar newspaper, was dead, blown to pieces by a bomb planted beneath the driver's seat of his gray Alfa Romeo. It was the first assassination in Lebanon since the murder of former Premier Rafiq Hariri in February, which sparked huge anti-Syrian demonstrations and finally compelled Damascus to disengage from its neighbor at the end of April. Why was Kassir targeted? He was the most outspoken critic...
Felt and two colleagues meet with FBI acting Director L. Patrick Gray to protest White House interference in the Watergate investigation...
Deep Throat tells Woodward that former Nixon campaign chairman John Mitchell and White House special counsel Charles Colson financed Hunt and Liddy's operation. Deep Throat confirms that Gray, below, destroyed files from Hunt's safe at the White House's direction. Gray withdraws his name from Senate consideration for the director's post and exits the FBI. Felt once again hopes to get the director's seat, but the job goes to William Ruckelshaus instead...
...Nolan Brown, a grandfather, Vietnam vet and National Guardsman, was called up for a desk job in Baghdad. Math teacher Kathy Mannon stepped into his post. Eleven days later, her husband Dennis, the librarian at the high school, was called up by the Air Force Reserve. Retired teacher Judy Gray, nearing 60, volunteered to fill in for him. Gray's own daughter Regina Jones had just seen her husband Albert leave for Iraq too. Jones, an elementary-school teacher, says the call-up was a strain on the town's children, since most knew someone going off to war. "With...
...remote island of Flores say they are descended from a tribe of tiny, hairy folk whom they call "the short people." "We didn't have knives but used rocks," he explains. "We didn't even know how to make fire." Jurubu, a soft-spoken man with close-cropped gray hair, high cheekbones and deeply inset eyes, looks to the 30 or so villagers sitting in a circle around him for confirmation. They nod and grunt assent, and he proceeds to talk about the time their shy ancestors hid themselves from the outside world in Liang Bua, a high-ceilinged cavern...